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As The Weil Turns: Another Private-Equity Partner Parts Ways

Who is leaving which Weil office? Hint: it's one with low morale.

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WEIL GOTSHAL & MANGES — BIO OF STEVEN M. PECK

Steve Peck is a partner in Weil’s Corporate Department. He specializes in representing sophisticated private investment funds, multi-national corporations and other market participants in their most challenging transactional matters. Mr. Peck’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and distressed transactions in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Peck also advises clients regarding securities law issues, disclosure and compliance matters and corporate governance.

Representative Transactions

  • Represented Summit Partners in numerous matters including its acquisitions of Help/Systems from private equity fund Audax Group and Central Security Group from private equity fund Great Hill Partners
  • Represented France-based pharmaceutical firm Sanofi in its investment in Warp Drive Bio, a start-up focusing on proprietary genomic technology to discover drugs of natural origin. Sanofi invested along with Third Rock Ventures and Greylock Partners.
  • Represented Sanofi in its acquisition of US-based Pluromed, a maker of polymer inserts for medical procedures, adding to Sanofi’s biosurgery offerings.
  • Represented THL Partners as part of an investor group in connection with the $1.5 billion recapitalization of MoneyGram International.
  • Represented General Motors in its $3.8 billion sale of ownership interests in Delphi Automotive back to Delphi Automotive.
  • Represented Emera Energy in its joint venture transaction with First Wind to develop and operate utility scale wind farms in the northeastern United States.
  • Represented THL Partners and Fidelity National Financial, Inc. in connection with their $5.3 billion public-to-private acquisition of Ceridian Corporation and represented Ceridian Corporation in its acquisition of Dayforce Corporation.

Mr. Peck has spoken as a guest lecturer on corporate and private equity law at Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He has been recognized by Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500 in private equity.

Mr. Peck graduated from Duke University, cum laude, and from Boston University Law School, cum laude.

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Education

Duke University (B.A., 1984); Boston Univ Law (J.D., 1987)

Earlier: Prior ATL coverage of Weil Gotshal

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